Constructing Mark Twain: New Directions in ScholarshipMichael J. Kiskis, Laura E. Skandera-Trombley University of Missouri Press, 2001 - 252 Seiten The thirteen essays in this collection combine to offer a complex and deeply nuanced picture of Samuel Clemens. With the purpose of straying from the usual notions of Clemens (most notably the Clemens/Twain split that has ruled Twain scholarship for over thirty years), the editors have assembled contributions from a wide range of Twain scholars. As a whole, the collection argues that it is time we approach Clemens not as a shadow behind the literary persona but as a complex and intricate creator of stories, a creator who is deeply embedded in the political events of his time and who used a mix of literary, social, and personal experience to fuel the movements of his pen. The essays illuminate Clemens's connections with people and events not usually given the spotlight and introduce us to Clemens as a man deeply embroiled in the process of making literary gold out of everyday experiences. From Clemens's wonderings on race and identity to his looking to family and domesticity as defining experiences, from musings on the language that Clemens used so effectively to consideration of the images and processes of composition, these essays challenge long-held notions of why Clemens was so successful and so influential a writer. While that search itself is not new, the varied approaches within this collection highlight markedly inventive ways of reading the life and work of Samuel Clemens. |
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... Jim , and the “ Black - and - White " Fallacy 139 JAMES S. LEONARD Humor , Sentimentality , and Mark Twain's Black Characters 151 DAVID L. SMITH Black Genes and White Lies Twain and the Romance of Race 169 ANN M. RYAN Mark Twain in ...
... Jim's complex identity . " Jim Leonard's " Huck , Jim , and the ' Black - and- White ' Fallacy " finds Twain's use of logic in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn highlighted when writing about racial issues . Naturally , Huck's decision to ...
... Jim on the other . Twain insisted that the arena for this consideration of morality is the home . I recently taught a graduate class called " Mark Twain and Social Jus- tice . " Our discussion of the constellation of social issues in ...
... Jim on Jackson's Island . Whether that reunion is part of Twain's initial plan or not ( Vic Doyno has suggested that it was not part of Twain's early intention ) , the first seven chapters offer troubling images of an adolescent ...
... Jim to the later exchange after their separation in the fog when Huck is shamed into apologizing to Jim [chapter 15] or, still later, Jim's story about his deaf daughter [chapter 23].) Their increasingly intimate talk reinforces both ...
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To his preferred friends he revealed his true character | 50 |
Mark Twains Mechanical Marvels | 72 |
Steamboats Cocaine and Paper Money | 87 |
Mark Twain Isabel Lyon and the Talking Cure | 101 |
The Minstrel and the Detective | 122 |
Huck Jim and the BlackandWhite Fallacy | 139 |
Black Genes and White Lies | 169 |
Mark Twain in Large and Small | 191 |
Who Killed Mark Twain? Long Live Samuel Clemens | 218 |
CONTRIBUTORS | 239 |